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2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Todays featured article • Technetium Deaths in November • 16 - Henry Taube Other recent deaths Events • 9: Launch of Venus Express • 19: First Hayabusa touchdown • 26: Second Hayabusa touchdown and sample collection • 2005 Atlantic hurricane season • 2005 Pacific... January 4, 2006 Astronomers announce new data on Plutos moon Charon obtained during an occultation of a star in July 2005. ... December 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 31 December 2005 (Saturday) 25-year-old Scottish human rights worker Kate Burton and her parents are freed unharmed in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier. ... This page deals with current events that take place in or are of interest to Australia, New Zealand, and/or the territories of those countries (such as Norfolk Island and Ross Dependency), and/or current events that involve Australians and/or New Zealanders. ... The following is a list of articles devoted to events from 2005 in narrow subject areas: Culture 2005 in architecture 2005 in film 2005 in games 2005 in literature 2005 in music 2005 in television 2005 in video gaming 2005 in Art People Deaths in 2005 State leaders in 2005... Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is regarded by many as the most influential scientist in history. ... Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... GIOVE is the name for each satellite in a set of four being built to validate the Galileo positioning system in orbit. ... See also: Other events of 2005 List of years in science . ... See also: Other events of 2004 List of years in science . ... See also: Other events of 2003 List of years in science . ... See also: Other events of 2002 List of years in science . ... See also: Other events of 2001 List of years in science . ... The following entries cover events of a science or technology related nature which occurred in the listed year. ...

December 31, 2005

• A leap second is added to UTC at midnight GMT to keep clocks worldwide synchronized with the Earth's rotation. (BBC)

December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A leap second is a one-second adjustment to civil time in order to keep it close to the mean solar time. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ... Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London, England, which by convention is at 0 degrees geographic longitude. ... Earth, also known as Terra, and Tellus mostly in the 19th century, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...

December 28, 2005

• The GIOVE-A satellite is successfully launched. (BBC)

December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GIOVE is the name for each satellite in a set of four being built to validate the Galileo positioning system in orbit. ...

December 23, 2005

• A Progress resupply ship docks with the International Space Station. (Reuters/YahooNews)
• During the first night of testing a new Moon monitoring observatory on November 7, researchers photograph a meteor impact on its surface. (NASA)
• Hwang Woo-suk resigns from his professor position at Seoul National University after an investigation reveals that his stem cell research results were fake. The South Korean government also starts an investigation of the alleged misconduct. (AP/YahooNews) (BBC)

December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ISS Progress cargo spacecraft (NASA) The Progress is an expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft; it was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is launched with the Soyuz launch vehicle. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of August 21, 2005 Perigee: 352. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... A burst of meteors A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ... Hwang Woo-Suk (born 29 January 1953) is a controversial South Korean biomedical scientist and former professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University, who rose to fame after claiming a series of remarkable breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research, some of which were later proved to... A professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) (prof for short) is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Seoul National University is a university whose main campus is located in Seoul, South Korea. ... Mouse embryonic stem cells. ... National motto: 널리 인간 세계를 이롭게 하라 Translation: Broadly bring benefit to humanity Official language Korean Capital Seoul Largest city Seoul President Roh Moo-hyun Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 108th 99,274 km² 0. ...

December 22, 2005

• Using pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope researches discover two new rings around the planet Uranus, as well as two new moons. (AP/YahooNews) (CNN) (SpaceRef.com)
• The European Commission takes steps to fine Microsoft €2 million a day if it does not comply by January 25 with an antitrust ruling issued in 2004. (AP/YahooNews)

December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. ... A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ... Adjective Uranian Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 120 kPa (at the cloud level) Hydrogen 83% Helium 15% Methane 1. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive of the European Union. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with 2005 global annual sales of 40 billion US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries and regions. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that competition law be merged into this article or section. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

December 21, 2005

• Researchers describe two human cases of Avian flu that exhibit resistance to the drug Oseltamivir in the New England Journal of Medicine. (BBC)
• Two studies published in Nature propose explanations for the data collected by the Opportunity rover on Mars that do not postulate a sea or lake of standing water. (AP/YahooNews)

December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Influenza A virus, the virus that causes Avian flu. ... Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society with the highest impact factor for a general medical journal. ... Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. ...

December 20, 2005

• The judge presiding over the Dover Area School Board trial concludes that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom. (AP/YahooNews)
• Members of the Beagle 2 team announce that a picture of the surface of Mars in their interpretation shows the remnants of the failed lander. (BBC)

December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. ... Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. ... A speculatively rooted phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, as described initially by Carl Woese. ... The term public school has different meanings: In Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and most other English-speaking nations, a public school is a school which is financed and run by the government and does not charge tuition fees. ... Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agencys 2003 Mars Express mission. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. ...

December 19, 2005

• Craig Venter is spearheading a project to create the first synthetic lifeform by designing its DNA from scratch and then fusing it with a microbe membrane. (Globe&Mail)
• The launch of the commercial rocket Falcon 1 is scrubbed after damage to the first stage fuel tank during a weather induced hold of the countdown. The SpaceX managers decide to move the launch to at least late January 2006. (SpaceflightNow.com)

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dr. Venter (right) with Michael Janich on his visit in Hong Kong in December 2004 John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and most viruses). ... A microorganism or microbe is an organism that is so small that it is microscopic (invisible to the naked eye). ... A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ... The Falcon 1 is a two stage to orbit RP-1 kerosene/liquid oxygen semi-reusable launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX. The lower stage includes one Merlin engine and the upper stage includes one Kestrel engine. ... A countdown is the backward counting to indicate the seconds, days, etc. ... The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is an El Segundo, California space transportation startup company whose stated goal is to improve the cost and reliability of access to space ultimately by a factor of ten. SpaceX is developing a family of mostly reusable two stage, kerosene/liquid oxygen launch vehicles. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

December 18, 2005

• The Mitochondrial DNA of the Mammoth is decoded. Its sequence supports the notion of a close relationship between the Mammoth and the Asian Elephant. (BBC)

December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Mitochondrial genetics. ... Species Mammuthus columbi Columbian mammoth Mammuthus exilis Pygmy mammoth Mammuthus jeffersonii Jeffersonian mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis Mammuthus primigenius Woolly mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorae Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus of elephant, often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long... Binomial name Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 The Asian Elephant, sometimes known as the Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) is one of the two or three living species of elephant. ...

December 16, 2005

• The launch of GIOVE-A is rescheduled due to problems with the ground station network. (ESA)
• A study of dinosaur bones indicates that at least one species (Plateosaurus engelhardti) was adjusting the length of its growth period, which would lead to contradictions to the theory that dinosaurs had a single warm-blooded common ancestor. (BBC)
• Hwang Woo-suk defends his work in a press conference, stating that he intends to retract the controversial Science article because of problems with pictures and other documentation, not because of allegedly falsified data. (AP/YahooNews)

December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... GIOVE is the name for each satellite in a set of four being built to validate the Galileo positioning system in orbit. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-12-30, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ... Binomial name Plateosaurus engelhardti von Meyer, 1837 The plateosaur or Plateosaurus (flat lizard) is the largest dinosaur known to have existed during the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic era, reaching 6 to 10 m in length, and up to 700 kg in mass. ... A warm-blooded (homeothermic) animal is one that can keep its core body temperature at a nearly constant level regardless of the temperature of the surrounding environment (that is, to maintain thermal homeostasis) . This can involve not only the ability to generate heat, but also the ability to cool down... Missing link is a term for a transitional form from the fossil record that connects an earlier species to a later one, or which connects two different species to an earlier ancestor. ... Hwang Woo-Suk (born 29 January 1953) is a controversial South Korean biomedical scientist and former professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University, who rose to fame after claiming a series of remarkable breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research, some of which were later proved to... A joint press conference by U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House. ... Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ...

December 15, 2005

• Roh Sung-il, a scientist connected to the research of Hwang Woo-suk, states on television that most of the data published in a groundbreaking paper in the journal Science was faked. (AP/YahooNews) (BBC)

December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hwang Woo-Suk (born 29 January 1953) is a controversial South Korean biomedical scientist and former professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University, who rose to fame after claiming a series of remarkable breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research, some of which were later proved to... Todays featured article • Tsunami Deaths in May • None entered Other recent deaths Ongoing events • None entered Upcoming events • None entered Related pages • 2005 in science • 2004 in science • 2003 in science • 2002 in science • 2001 in science Other Years in Sci Tech May 20, 2005 South Korean scientists led... Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ...

December 14, 2005

• Astronomers have spotted a sun-like star with possible planet formation 137 light years away. (Spitzer.CalTech.edu)
• The discovery of an unusual Kuiper belt object, designated 2004 XR₁₉₀, is announced. Altough classified as a scattered disc object, its orbit can not easily be explained. (SpaceflightNow.com)
• Due to problems controlling the attitude and thrusters of Hayabusa, JAXA mission managers decide to delay the return of the spacecraft to Earth until 2010. (AP/YahooNews)
• Flint tools unearthed in Pakefield, Suffolk, indicate that humans lived in the United Kingdom about 700,000 years ago - 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. (BBC)
• The International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology Protocols and Researches (ISMCBPR) awards the Molecule of the Year 2005 to Scientists of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.). The choice of 4E10 as the Molecule of the Year 2005 is based on a 2005 publication written by Dr. Ian Wilson, Dr. Dennis Burton and co authors. This announcement was made by Isidro T. Savillo, President, ISMCBPR. (Press release:TSRI) (Hum-MolGen)

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sun is the star at the center of our Solar system. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... Artists rendering of the Kuiper Belt and more distant Oort cloud. ... The correct title of this article is 2004 XR190. ... The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by a subset of the family of trans-Neptunian objects known as scattered disk objects (SDOs). ... Two bodies with a slight difference in mass orbiting around a common barycenter. ... Hayabusa (はやぶさ - peregrine falcon) is an unmanned space mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to collect a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa (dimensions 540 meters by 270 meters by 210 meters) and return the sample to Earth for analysis. ... This is the current Japanese collaboration of the week! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ... Earth, also known as Terra, and Tellus mostly in the 19th century, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... 2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flint tools were made by stone age peoples worldwide. ...

December 13, 2005

• The mass of the star Sirius B is determined by measuring the gravitational redshift of light emitted from its surface. The researchers obtained this observationally challenging data using the Hubble Space Telescope. (SpaceRef.com)
• Scientists at the Salk Institute embed human nerve cells in the brain of mice. Even though they arrived at only 0.1 percent of the brain being made of human cells, this work spurs discussion of ethical limits of biological research. (AP/YahooNews)
• An international collaboration of astronomers re-analyse archived Hubble Space Telescope pictures to map the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The results seem to support the theory that both visible and dark matter are clumped into "web like" structures. (space.com/YahooNews)

December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sirius (α CMa / α Canis Majoris / Alpha Canis Majoris) is the brightest star in the nighttime sky, with a visual apparent magnitude of −1. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. ... Salk Institute Salk Institute The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent non-profit educational research organization in La Jolla, California. ... Drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal of cells in the pigeon cerebellum. ... Feral mouse A mouse is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents in the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ (Old World Mice). ... A percentage is a way of expressing a proportion, a ratio or a fraction as a whole number, by using 100 as the denominator. ... Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. ... For the suburb of Melbourne, Australia, see Research, Victoria. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. ... This refers to use the cosmological use of the term. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. ...

December 12, 2005

• The Opportunity rover reaches one Martian year on the surface of Mars. (NASA)
• Engineers evaluating data from the NASA shuttle test flight mission find evidence for an oxygen leak in the rear engine compartment. Managers comment that this potentially dangerous problem must be fixed before the shuttle can fly again. (BBC)

December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. ... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... STS-114 was the Return to Flight Space Shuttle mission which launched Space Shuttle Discovery at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), July 26, 2005. ... General Name, Symbol, Number oxygen, O, 8 Chemical series Chalcogens Group, Period, Block 16, 2, p Appearance colorless Atomic mass 15. ...

December 10, 2005

• The Kyoto Protocol is extended beyond the original final year 2012 by the countries that have signatory status. Targets for this period still need to be set. (BBC)

December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kyoto Protocol Opened for signature December 11, 1997 at Kyoto, Japan Entered into force February 16, 2005. ... 2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

December 9, 2005

• The discovery of a security flaw in Firefox 1.5 is announced by the Mozilla Corporation. The problem allows a hacker to freeze the browser program, but it apparently can not be used to take control of the user's computer. (newfactor.com/YahooNews)
• After two weeks of investigation, mission engineers are able to command the arm of the rover Opportunity on Mars to make a slight movement. Scientists and engineers continue to discuss in what position to leave the arm, when it can no longer be moved. (Space.com/YahooNews)

December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that develops, distributes and promotes the Internet-related applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. ... A zombie computer (abbreviated zombie) is a computer attached to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, a computer virus, or a trojan horse, and performs malicious tasks of one sort of another, under the direction of the hacker. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. ...

December 7, 2005

• The DNA sequence of the domestic dog (the sample was taken from a boxer) is deciphered and results are published in Nature. (AFP/YahooNews)
• In the journal Nature, a report described a mechanism for how some forms of cancer spread. Special bone marrow cells are sent out and force a new region to produce a protein called fibronectin, which helps create a cancer friendly nest. (MSNBC)
• Scientists at the University of Florida teach brain cells extracted from a rat embryo to fly an F-22 jet simulator. (The Age)
• Mission members for the Hayabusa spacecraft announce that new data indicate that no metal pellets were shot into the surface of 25143 Itokawa during the second sampling touchdown. It is uncertain whether the probe actually collected any asteroid material. (AP/YahooNews)

December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and most viruses). ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The dog is a canine mammal of the Order Carnivora. ... Boxers are a breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a smooth fawn or brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle. ... Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. ... Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Fibronectin is high molecular weight glycoprotein containing about 5% carbohydrate that bind to receptor proteins spanning the cell membrane called integrins and to the extracellular matrix. ... University of Florida State University System of Florida FAMU FAU FGCU FIU FSU NCF UCF UF UNF USF UWF The University of Florida is a public university located in Gainesville, Florida. ... Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ... Hayabusa (はやぶさ - peregrine falcon) is an unmanned space mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to collect a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa (dimensions 540 meters by 270 meters by 210 meters) and return the sample to Earth for analysis. ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ... 25143 Itokawa is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...

December 6, 2005

• The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) photographs what appears to be a previously unknown mammal species in Borneo. The lemur-like carnivorous mammal is apparently a member of the viverrid family, related to the mongoose and civet. (BBC)
• India joins the ITER project to build a protoype fusion reactor and pave the way for a fusion based, commercial power plant. The international collaboration announces that it is now supported by countries representing more than half of the world's population. (BBC)

December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note: After losing a court case in 2002 on the use of the initials WWF, the organization previously known as the World Wrestling Federation has rebranded itself as World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. WWF - The Conservation Organization was formerly known as World Wildlife Fund and Worldwide Fund for Nature. ... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes... Borneo and Sulawesi Borneo (politically divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) is the third largest island in the world. ... Superfamilies and Families Cheirogaleoidea Cheirogaleidae Lemuroidea Lemuridae Lepilemuridae Indridae Lemurs are part of a class of primates known as prosimians, and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. ... Subfamilies Cryptoproctinae Euplerinae Hemigalinae Paradoxurinae Viverrinae The 35 species of civet, genet and linsang make up the family Viverridae. ... Subfamiles Herpestinae Galidiinae The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Subfamilies Cryptoproctinae Euplerinae Hemigalinae Paradoxurinae Viverrinae The 35 species of civet, genet and linsang make up the family Viverridae. ... Cutaway of the ITER Tokamak Torus in casing. ... The Sun is a natural fusion reactor. ... The deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction is considered the most promising for producing fusion power. ... Oil power plant in Iraq Coal power plant in China A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... Look up country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The World in plate carrée projection The World In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is age or life of man. Its primary modern meaning is the planet Earth, especially when capitalized: the World. ...

December 5, 2005

• Using nanotechnology scientists from Bar-Ilan University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have produced polyyne (comprised of acetylene units), which is 40 times harder than diamond. (Jerusalem Post)

December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mite next to a gear set produced using MEMS, the precursor to nanotechnology. ... Bar-Ilan University (BIU, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן) is a university in Ramat Gan, Israel. ... The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון - מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a university in Haifa, Israel. ... A polyyne is an organic compound with alternating single and triple bonds, for example buta-1,3-diyne or diacetylene, C4H2. ... The chemical compound acetylene, also known under IUPAC nomenclature (see IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry) as ethyne, was discovered in 1836 by Edmund Davy, in England. ... A scattering of round-brilliant cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets. ...

December 3, 2005

• A bright meteor is seen by many people in southwestern Australia around 9 p.m. local time. (AP/YahooNews)

December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A burst of meteors A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ...

December 2, 2005

• The SOHO satellite reaches 10 years in space while still generating valuable science data, continuously observing the Sun. (ESA)
• Astronomers in the United Kingdom use the low-cost Lucky Imaging technique to determine stars that are in fact binary stars. (BBC)

December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft launched in 1995 to study the sun. ... A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). ... The Sun is the star at the center of our Solar system. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... The best 1% of exposures of the 0. ... A binary star system consists of two stars both orbiting around their barycenter. ...

December 1, 2005

• The fossil of an Archaeopteryx found in Germany reveals that its feet were similar to that of other dinosaurs. This would support the notion of a direct descent of this species from earlier dinosaurs. (Reuters/YahooNews)

December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Binomial name Archaeopteryx lithographica Meyer, 1861 Archaeopteryx lithographica, a Jurassic fossil with both bird and dinosaur features, is widely accepted as the earliest and most primitive known bird. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-12-30, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...

Past science and technology events by month

2005 in science: July August September October November
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